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As far as MiCAR is concerned, December 2024 was a busy month for both market participants and competent authorities. On 17 December 2024,...
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Technology quotient - the ability of an individual, team or organization to harness the power of technology
Finally! Avid readers of Freshfields blogs might remember from our post last autumn that the UK government and financial regulators in...
Background On 11 July 2024, the Law Commission published a scoping paper (the Scoping Paper) on Decentralised Autonomous Organisations...
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The harmonisation of European financial services law for cryptocurrencies is approaching with great strides, or is it? As per the...
Background Since 2016, Dr Craig Wright, an Australian computer scientist, has been asserting intellectual property rights against...
On 3 April 2024, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Bank of England (BoE) published a consultation paper setting out their...
Overview Frequent readers of this blog know that we have been keeping a watchful eye on the UK’s evolving approach to the potential...
The regulation of cryptoassets around the world is an evolving landscape. In the EU, for example, the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation...
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In the area of crypto regulation, two opposite forces currently collide. On the one hand, the European regulatory framework, MiCA (or...
On 30 October 2023, HM Treasury (HMT) published three documents setting out how the UK government plans to regulate cryptoassets going...
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The Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) will apply from 30 December 2024 (except for the provisions on e-money tokens and...
The Culture, Media and Sport Committee has now published its report NFTs and the Blockchain: the risks to sport and culture. The report...